Establishing a critical care network in Asia to improve care for critically ill patients in low- and middle-income countries
CRIT CARE ASIA, Abi Beane, Arjen M. Dondorp, Arshad Taqi, A. S. M. Areef Ahsan, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Chairrat Permpikul, Christopher Pell, David Gandy, Dilanthi Priyadarshani, Diptesh Aryal, Dong Phu Khiem, Duong Bich Thuy, Guy Thwaites, Gyan Kayastha, Ishara Udayanga, Jorge Salluh, Khamsay Detleuxay, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Lam Minh Yen, Lim Chew Har, Louise Thwaites, Madiha Hashmi, Marcus J. Schultz, Mavuto Mukaka, Meghan Leaver, Mohd Basri Mat Nor, Muhammad Hayat, Nick Day, Ramani Moonesinghe, Rashan Haniffa, Ratapum Champunot, Rebecca Inglis, Rozina Sultana, Sophie Yacoub, Steve Harris, Subhash Prasad Acharya, Swagata Tripathy, Syed Muneeb Ali, Tamilarasu Kadhiravan, Yoel Lubell
Abstract
When undertaking quality improvement (QI) initiatives, one of the greatest burdens is repeated data collection. Intensive care registries, such as those commonly used in high-income countries (HICs), have enabled systematic capture of routine information needed to measure intensive care unit (ICU) performance [ 1 ]. Once considered unfeasible in resource-limited settings, newer cloud-based platforms are gaining increasing traction. Collaborative surveillance platforms, such as NICS-MORU and PRICE, which have mobile and desktop applications, have established methods for daily capture of individual patient-level information and have shown that—even in resource-limited settings—the systematic evaluation of patient care throughout the hospital journey is feasible at scale using coalesced minimal data sets [ 2 , 3 ].